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Scarburgh, Sir Charles (1615–1694), physician and natural philosopher, son of Edmund Scarburgh, gentleman, of the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and

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Scarburgh, Sir Charles (16151694), physician and natural philosopher, son of Edmund Scarburgh, gentleman, of the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Hannah Butler, was born in London on 29 December 1615 and was sent to St Paul's School. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, as a sizar on 4 March 1633 and graduated BA in 1637 and MA in 1640, at which time he was elected a fellow and concentrated on medicine and mathematics. ...